Captain Charles D'Arcy Edmund Wentworth Reeve was living at Hambleton Hall with his parents at the outbreak of war. He was the son of Wentworth Reeve and his wife, originally of Livermere Park, Bury St. Edmunds, and was born at Owsden Hall, Newmarket, on 5 September 1894. He joined the Officer Training Corps while at Hambleton, and entered Sandhurst in November 1914, becoming a Second Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment before being attached to the Royal Flying Corps in March 1915. He went out to France on 22 August and flew in the Loos area before being based near Ypres. Charles became a Flight Commander and temporary Captain on 1 May 1916. He died, not in battle, but in a flying accident in England after setting off from Hounslow on 18 July 1916. He was buried at Livermere, Suffolk after a Requiem Mass at Bury St Edmunds. He is not on Hambleton's war memorial. An article in The Tablet on 5 August 1916 decsribed him as a first-rate night pilot. It says he was received into the Church at Exton "about two years ago."